20.11.2016 - 20:39 [ Think Progress ]

Trump poised to violate Constitution his first day in office, George W. Bush’s ethics lawyer says

The Constitution’s “Emoluments Clause,” provides that “no person holding any office of profit or trust under” the United States “shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title, of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign state.”